Arum Dracunculus

by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

A. dracunculus, Willd. N. O. Araceæ. Tincture of root.

Clinical

Nettle-rash / Pricking pains

Characteristics

A. dracun. is commonly cultivated in gardens. It has a fetid smell which is apt to cause headache. The following effects of pounding the root and tearing up leaves and stems have been observed: Styptic metallic taste at back of mouth. Pricking, mingled with intolerable itching in fingers, as if hand plunged among nettles. On rubbing the fingers together, sensation as if a vast number of stings were driven perpendicularly into them.

Arum Dracunculus across the other classic books

Arum Dracunculus appears in 2 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“A. dracunculus, Willd. Nat order , Araceæ. Preparation , Tincture from the root. Authority. Styptic and metallic taste, mingled with bitterness at the back of the mouth, 1. Prickings as with thorns in the fingers of the right hand, 1. Feeling as if the hand were plunged among nettles, 1. On rubbing the fingers…”

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